SAND MINING CONTINUES TO PLAGUE THE ISLAND

Hillsborough, November 19th, 2009- Police in Carriacou are trying to find out who was responsible for a quantity of sand believed to have been removed illegally from one of the island’s beaches.

Officers attached to the Carriacou Police Station recently discovered 31 bags of sand on the eastern seacoast of Grand-Bay.  The police suspect that it is a case of sand-mining, which is prohibited.  So far, no one has been arrested and charged.

Since assuming power in July 2008, the government of Prime Minister Hon. Tillman Thomas has made the protection of the Tri-island State’s pristine environment an issue of key importance.

The Prime Minister and his cabinet have just aappointed “Environmental Wardens’’ for the various parishes, including six who will be attached to the Ministry of Carriacou & Petite Martinique Affairs headed by Sen. The Hon. George Prime.
Noting the negative effects the practice has caused, government decided to cease sand-mining operations on all of the nation’s beaches.  However, mining of sand continues to plague Carriacou, with police trying to track down the culprits.